Re: Cats in space

From: Paul Blay (ranma_at_saotome.demon.co.uk)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:03:48 -0000

"Jonathan Silverlight" wrote ...
> Don't the Swiss have a law requiring a household to have a gun? Somehow
> they manage to avoid the 30,000 resultant deaths in the last report from
> the USA.

I belive so. AIVR they also have fairly ready accent to heavier weapons.

Just goes to show it's not the 'gun culture' it's the 'shooting guns at people culture'.
(Unfortunately we have a bit of the latter over here in the UK as well).

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